¶ Absoluciō is wherby the defendour she-
weth that it is laufull for hym to do that
what the aduersary bringeth in for a signe
of his malice.
¶ Example.
¶ A man is founde couerynge of a dede bo[-]
dy / & therupon accused of murder / he may
answere that it is laufull to do so for ye pre-
seruacion of his body from rauons & other
that wolde deuoure hym / tyll tyme he had
warned people to fetche and bury hym.
¶ Inuercion is wherby we shew that the
signe whiche is brought agaīst vs: maketh
for vs. As I wolde nat haue taryed to co-
uer hym yf I had done the dede my selfe:
but haue fled and shronke a syde into some
other way for feare of takynge.
¶ Of the conclusion.
THe cōclusion is as I haue said
afore in briefe repetynge of the
effecte of our reasons / & in mo-
uynge the Iudges to our purpose. The ac[-]
cuser to punysshe the persone accused. The
defender / to moue hym to pity.
¶ Of the state iuridiciall / and
the handelynge thereof.
AS state coniectural cometh out
of this questyon (who dyd the
dede) so whan there is no doubt
but that the dede is done / and who dyd it /
many tymes controuersy is had / whether
it hath ben done laufully or nat. And this
state is negociall or iuridiciall / whiche con[-]
teyneth the right or wronge of the dede.
As in the oracyon of Tully for Milo / the
state is iuridiciall / for opē it was that Clo[-]
dius was slayn / and that Milo slew hym /
but whether he kylled hym laufully or nat:
is the controuersy and state of the cause /
as I haue afore declared.
¶ The preamble and nar-
racion as afore.
